Guido Hauck

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Hermann Guido Hauck (born December 26, 1845 in Heilbronn , † January 25, 1905 in Charlottenburg ) was a secret councilor and professor of mathematics.

Life

family

Guido's father was Hermann Hauck (* 1815; † 1889). He came from Ansbach and was trained as a businessman at the Heilbronn company Goppel. Since 1841 he was married to Hedwig Elben (1819–1888) from Beilstein. From 1842 Hermann was a partner in the cigar company Johann Ludwig Reiner, which was run by his brother Gustav Hauck and his wife Caroline Reiner. From 1857 Hermann continued the newly opened branch in Stuttgart. Guido Hauck married Marianne Jäger (* 1847; † 1941) in 1872 and had three children with her, Hedwig (* 1873; † 1949), Alfred (* 1875; † 1931) and Margarete (* 1883; † 1921). The older daughter Hedwig Hauck was an art teacher at the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, the son Alfred Hauck was director of studies in Hirschberg in Silesia and the younger daughter Margarete had been married to the Leipzig architect Georg Warnecke (* 1876; † 1927) since 1920.

Act

Guido Hauck attended the Heilbronn grammar school and later the grammar school in Stuttgart. From 1863 he attended the polytechnic high school in Stuttgart, then the University of Tübingen , where he studied mathematics with Hermann Hankel , Carl Gottfried Neumann and Sigmund Gundelfinger .

After training as a real teacher, he became a professor at the secondary school in Tübingen and at the same time professor for descriptive geometry and elementary mathematics at the University of Tübingen. In 1877 he moved to the Berlin Bauakademie as professor for descriptive geometry . After the building academy was merged with the commercial academy to form the Technical University of Berlin in 1879, he was the third rector of the Technical University of Berlin from 1883 to 1885. In 1884 he was appointed a secret councilor. In 1896 he was a rector for a third term.

Hauck's area of ​​expertise was in particular the mathematical aspect of perspective . His dissertation in 1876 already dealt with the main features of a general axonometric theory of the representational perspective . Even later he remained connected to perspective problems in art. He developed a perspectograph that could be used to create a perspective drawing from the outline and elevation of an object. In addition to practical mathematical applications, he also devoted himself to didactics and pedagogy in connection with descriptive geometry , including in his work Mathematical Fairy Tales .

Guido Hauck died in 1905 at the age of 59 in Charlottenburg near Berlin. He was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg near Berlin. The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • Textbook of stereometry (1873)
  • Methodology of descriptive geometry (1874)
  • The subjective perspective and horizontal curvatures of the Doric style (1879)
  • The painterly perspective, its practice, justification and aesthetic effect (1882)
  • About mechanical perspective and photogrammetry (1883)
  • The boundaries between painting and sculpture and the laws of relief (1885)
  • On Inner Intuition and Pictorial Thinking (1897)
  • Theory of the parallel-projective-trilinear relationship of plane systems (1904)

literature

  • Stefan Hauck: Beyond mathematics. Guido Hermann Hauck (1845–1905). In: Heilbronner Köpf IV (2007), pp. 69–86. Heilbronn Verlag Stadtarchiv 2007 (Small series of publications from the Heilbronn City Archives; 52)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rectorate for 1884/85 , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 24, June 14, 1884, p. 248, accessed on December 30, 2012
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 752.
personal data
SURNAME Hauck, Guido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauck, Hermann Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, secret government councilor and professor of mathematics
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1905
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg